Dystopian Literature

Characters play a very important role in this trilogy, Divergent . As we know, it is a story based on a dystopia, in which society is divided into factions. These factions have different attitudes to life. The protagonists of this trilogy are Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton. They are Divergent, people who do not fit to any faction and who are condemned to death. Beatrice Prior Beatrice Prior was born in the Abnegation faction. However, she does not feel comfortable and changes to Dauntless. She represents the typical dystopian character. As she grows up, she realizes that this society does not represent herself and that it should change. She is always in a kind of fear state, as she does not understand her society’s organization and government. This idea of fear in the main character's personality is exaplained in the post on Dystopian Literature. She means the rebellion in this story, as she is the one, together with Tobias Eaton, who challenge the government and its la...

Source  At first glance,  Divergent sounds like a more artificial version of Hunger Games. In a dark dystopian future, everyone must have only one personality trait. But the film version does a good job of revealing how this story really is about social engineering. Although Divergent clearly wants to be the next Hunger Games, it is not really made from the same cloth: Hunger Games has a pretty clear message about the gulf between the rich and everyone else, and about how the powerful use media culture and the spectacle of violence to control dissent. Meanwhile, Divergent is by no means as violent, nor as sombre as Hunger Games, nor does it have the same level of social relevance. Divergent's basic premise is the following one: in a horrible future, the world is a wasteland except Chicago, which is a walled city. Within the walls of Chicago, everyone belongs to one of five "factions" representing different virtues: courage, kindness, honesty, self-sacrifice and ...

Characters in the Hunger Games Saga In these works of both literary and audiovisual, young adult fiction, there is a variety of characters who navigate in the context of this bleak, dreary world which is actually a sort of dystopic, near-future version of the real world. Most relevantly, and in the position of the main hero characters are the teenaged and young adult Katniss Everdeen , Peeta Mellark , Gale Hawthorne and Primrose Everdeen . On the other side of the picture, we find as antagonists president Coriolanus Snow , Cato or Alma Coin .  Main Characters   Katniss Everdeen As already introduced, the main characters in the series count with Katniss Everdeen, a dweller of one of the poorer and rougher districts in the North American country of Panem, whose main occupation is to take care of his mother and orphaned sister Primrose through hunting and in general providing sustenance for them, until she is confronted with the need to participate in the Hung...

In this trilogy, Suzanne Collins depicts a society in which many issues are denounced. She presents social issues giving place to an unfair society full of injustices trying to make the reader conscious of such problems. These issues are very well linked with the plot of the novel and they are easily identifiable, among these aspects such as government oppression, hierarchisation and classism are present in the trilogy, and they will be treated below. In first place, it should be remarked that their society is ruled by an oppressive government which is not worried about the injustices and inequality of classes but about controlling people for their own welfare. This leads to a big and one of the main social issues covered within the novels: the social hierarchisation . Panem, their country, is divided into districts, and each district belong to a social class . Therefore, if someone belongs to one of the lowest districts, as the main character does, he will have to get by a...

Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures  in ‘a dark, nightmare world.' Dystopias present a futuristic, imagined world full of  technological, moral and oppressive social control and the illusion of a perfect moral society. Moreover, dystopias make a strong criticism about a current trend, political system, or social norm. Source The main elements which appear in a dystopian literary work are: Propaganda: it is used to control society. Restrictions: information, individualism and independent thought, as well as freedom are restricted or even non-existent. Characters (world’s citizens): they are pressured by a continuous surveillance which provoke on them a strong fear of the outside world. Also, they live in a dehumanized state, where the natural world is banished and distrusted. Society: society is depicted as an illusion of an ideal utopian world. Within dystopian literature the reader can f...

Within this blog, we will focus on the literary genre of dystopian literature. First of all, we will analyze and describe what this genre that is found within the "young adult literature" consists of, paying attention to the elements that usually appear as propaganda, restrictions and a series of characters that live trapped in a fictitious utopian society. In addition, we will comment on the several kinds of dystopian controls such as corporate, bureaucratic, technological and philosophical or religious control, being them different and with specific features. Then, the nature of the dystopian protagonists’ personality will be tackled and discussed. After that, we will enter in the commentary and analysis of two films within this genre: The Hunger Games and Divergent, two important film inspired in the books of the respective authors, Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth. In terms of these two literary and film series, we will explore and comment on the social issues ...